Archive for November 2016

Just received a great news from IOUG that three of my presentations were accepted for Collaborate 17.

. Session #724: Oracle DBAs, It is time to have a first taste of Oracle Database Cloud Service

Abstract: As an important part of Oracle Cloud offering, Oracle Database Cloud service provides an easy of use enterprise-proven highly available and scalable database service. Oracle database cloud service can be the first “going to Cloud” that you, an Oracle DBA may experience. This session helps you get the first taste of Oracle Database Cloud service. It will examine choices of of database cloud services and help you to determine which one would fit in your business requirement. It will also discuss the technical expects of each of cloud services. Through a few examples, the session will discuss the DBA tasks and how you would perform in the new database environment ranging from creating database cloud service to managing the databases.

Abstract :By introducing In-Memory column store, Oracle Database In-Memory (DBIM) significantly improves the performance for analytic queries as well as mixed workloads. Come to this session to learn Oracle Database In Memory under the hood: the dual format memory architecture and configuration, how the data is populated into In-Memory column store and it helps query performance. . This presentation also covers further enhancements of DBIM in Oracle Database 12cR2 : Join group, and In-memory expression, In Memory active Data Guard support etc. Through some case studies of business analytics projects, this presentation covers the practices of leveraging DBIM to improve the query performance of business analytic applications and how to use In Memory advisor to determine the objects that need to be loaded into In memory column storage . We also will present some analysis on the performance gains by using IM memory features and when and how these gains can be achieved.

Abstract: In this session we will share some of our experience on upgrading different versions of Oracle databases to the latest Oracle 12c. Attend this session you will learn the upgrade tools and various upgrade paths that help you plan your upcoming database upgrades. This will include upgrade methods for multitenant databases. Another focus area of this session is Oracle RAC database upgrade which includes Oracle Grid Infrastructure upgrade and Oracle RAC database upgrade. You will also learn how to use the rolling upgrade for Oracle Clusterware and ASM and Oracle RAC database to reduce the database downtime.

And it will be my great honor to join my fellow Oracle ACE Directors and Oracle ACEs as a co-speaker for their sessions:

And at last , but certainly not least, I am waiting for IOUG Collaborate 17 conference committee to accept one of important sessions in Cloud area: the IOUG Cloud SIG session: Session #711 Cloud Experience-To the Cloud and Back -Hands on Workshop by Steve Lemme, Charles Kim, Try Logon, Erik Benner, Kai Yu, Seth Miller.